Hi,
I have received email with invalid message-id's from a number of
Evolution users recently; sample msgid:
1023735423.7339.8.camel@dirk
I did a bit of googling to see if this has been fixed in the most
recent versions, and can't find any evidence that it has. I found
what seems to be a related thread [1] that referred to bug 1557 [2]
and an expired i-d on guidelines for generating msgids [3] which is
worth reading; also, RFC 2822 says:
The message identifier (msg-id) itself MUST be a globally unique
identifier for a message. The generator of the message identifier
MUST guarantee that the msg-id is unique. There are several
algorithms that can be used to accomplish this [...]
-- sec 3.6.4, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
This problem might happen only on systems with misconfigured hostnames
(i.e. systems on which 'hostname --fqdn' returns a simple hostname
instead of fully-qualified domain name?), but I think it would be
good for Evolution to detect and handle this situation to prevent
sending out mail with bogus msgids.
[1] http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2001-March/006680.html
[2] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1557
[3] http://www.karlsruhe.org/rfc/draft-ietf-usefor-msg-id-alt-00.txt
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/
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